Shantanu Narayen
Chief executive and chair, Adobe
Shantanu Narayen is a chief executive and chair at Adobe. They also file at Pfizer (director). Their most recent Section 16 filing is from September 2026.
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Adobe licenses can now be bought with OpenAI budget, at a toll nobody discloses
Adobe's CX Enterprise Coworker is live in ChatGPT with 2,500-plus users, and Marketplace status lets enterprises buy it out of existing OpenAI spend. The channel lands as backlog growth slips to 8%, the stock drops 16.4% in a month and a new CEO arrives December 1.
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The executive who ran Photoshop just left Adobe with no successor and no reason
David Wadhwani stepped down as president of Adobe's Creativity & Productivity business on 27 September with no successor named, nine weeks before a new CEO takes over. The quarter he leaves behind was a record; the stock is down 32 percent this year all the same.
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Adobe's CEO sold $31 million of stock with no trading plan, days after OpenAI barred Firefly from ChatGPT ads
A Form 4 filed 18 September 2026 shows Shantanu Narayen's family trust sold about a third of its Adobe stake with no trading plan claimed. The footnote says tax and estate planning; the timing, a week after OpenAI closed ChatGPT's ad surface to rival image tools, is what makes it news.
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